ESVENSSON%brage.qz.se@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (Erik Svensson) (11/19/90)
From: Erik Svensson <ESVENSSON%brage.qz.se@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU> Mary Shafer and Ted Kim writes: >> (Mary Shafer) writes: >> ... >>Fighters and bombers don't have thrust reversing. Some have >>drag chutes, though. > >Don't some versions of the Tornado have thrust reversers? > >-ted All versions of the Tornado uses thrust reversers, as do the Swedish fighter Viggen. I think it's more correct to say that US fighters and bombers don't use reversers. Erik Svensson Guided Weapons Division National Defense Research Establishment Stockholm, Sweden net.address: esvensson@brage.qz.se
rqdms@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (DENNIS STOCKERT) (11/20/90)
From: rqdms@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (DENNIS STOCKERT) >>> (Mary Shafer) writes: >>> ... >>>Fighters and bombers don't have thrust reversing. Some have >>>drag chutes, though. >> There IS a US research program that has a fighter aircraft with a vectoring, thrust reversing nozzle... the aircraft is a modified F-15 Eagle *********************************************************************** * Dennis Stockert * The meek shall inherit the earth; * * rqdms@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov * the rest of us will go to the stars * ****************************************** Aviation Week ************** * No one that knows me would mistake my opinions for those of * * any respectable organization * ***********************************************************************
valdes@andy.bgsu.edu (oscar Valdes) (11/22/90)
From: oscar Valdes<valdes@andy.bgsu.edu> RE: Mary Shafer's statement "fighters and bombers don't have thrust reversers" Isn't the YF-22, at present at the prototype stage, equipped with thrust reversers?
magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) (11/22/90)
From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) In article <1990Nov20.020623.25836@cbnews.att.com> rqdms@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (DENNIS STOCKERT) writes: > > >From: rqdms@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (DENNIS STOCKERT) >>>> (Mary Shafer) writes: >>>> ... >>>>Fighters and bombers don't have thrust reversing. Some have >>>>drag chutes, though. >>> > >There IS a US research program that has a fighter aircraft with a >vectoring, thrust reversing nozzle... the aircraft is a modified F-15 >Eagle The Swedish Saab 37 Viggen fighter, operational since the early seventies, has a thrust reverser. Magnus Olsson | \e+ /_ Dept. of Theoretical Physics | \ Z / q University of Lund, Sweden | >----< Internet: magnus@thep.lu.se | / \===== g Bitnet: THEPMO@SELDC52 | /e- \q